Ouch

And this interview doesn't present Senator Rockafeller very well. He basically says, "The President had his mind made up about Iraq days after 9/11." The interviewer then asks, well, "why did you vote to authorize force, then?" He responds, "Based upon the intelligence estimates we had." The interviewer says, "Well, so did the President." Rockafeller says, "He had the daily intelligence reports, we had only the summary reports." The interviewer says, "Well, the committee that compared the two reports said that the daily reports were more alarming than the summary report." Rockafeller says, "Well, I haven't looked at the daily reports."

The truth is, any responsible politician facing a post-9/11 world knew rogue regimes are a greater threat to world security. Four years later, without another major terrorist attack and hardships in Iraq, make it look as though we might have overreacted. The base of the democratic party is trying to pitch that idea and argue that Bush lied and screwed up Iraq.

Kaus has an idea about how the Dems can win an election - win Iraq.